Web Forms and XML Processing: Some Quality Factors of Process and Product

Mário Amado Alves
2001 Quality of Information and Communications Technology  
The web is bad; really bad."--observed Jakob Nielsen three years ago about The Web Usage Paradox [1]. The true paradox today is that science and technology institutions have bad sites! Programrnes devoted to the information socioty itself have bad sites!! Hopefully this international conference will make a difference. At least show Nielsen and myself are not just fools on the hill" and, hopefully, help management make wiser decisions regarding web development strategies and, correlatively,
more » ... r technical staff selection. The current paper contributes to this goal by exposing a method for the development of complex web services which embodies a number of quality assurance items and has passed the test of real web service deployment, featuring user authentication, multiple forms, recorded data, and automated page creation. The method and the case are described with incursions into selected technical details, Quality factors are explicitly or implicitly associated with each described item.
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